Vets4Pets Warrington Environmental Policy

Vets4Pets Warrington is a veterinary practice which specialises in small animal care.

 At Vets4Pets Warrington, our veterinary team are always striving to provide friendly and knowledgeable support from initial advice to care for patients and pet owners. 

We acknowledge that our operations have an effect on the environment and have identified our key environmental aspects that contribute our environmental and carbon footprint:

• Consumption of electricity, gas, water, and other fuels
• Use of anaesthetic gases
• Waste generation
• Transport emissions
• Use of raw materials, including prescribed drugs and medicines
• Procured goods and services with their own environmental impact

Warrington Vets4Pets is committed to reducing its environmental impact through a journey of continual improvement by working through the Investors in the Environment accreditation scheme. The management team commit to the following:

• Considering the environmental impact of every business decision made
• Implementing our environmental policy and filtering this down through the team
• Encouraging all members to show an active commitment to reducing their environmental impact at work and to follow our environmental policy
• Actively encouraging all team members to join the Green Team and to supporting the Green Team in reaching their goals and objectives, taking onboard any suggestions on how the business can reduce its environmental impact

Our environmental commitment can be demonstrated in our established objectives and goals below: Commitment to net zero carbon emissions target by 2040 in alignment with corporate sustainability policies. 

• Commitment to net zero carbon emissions target by 2040 in alignment with corporate sustainability policies
• Compliance with all applicable environmental regulations and public/customer expectations
• Monitoring our key resource usage and implementing conservation techniques to achieve our environmental targets
• Implement a waste/recycling policy and sustainable procurement policy
• Take part in two Health sustainability project with our staff
• Working with suppliers to ensure they acknowledge and decrease the environmental impact of their products and transportation
• Publication and distribution of an annual organisational sustainability report

We will continue to improve our environmental management system by working to the Investors in the Environment (iiE) criteria, considering any changes in legislation, our organisation, and other factors. We will convey this policy to all our employees ensuring that they are provided with training to increase awareness of environmental matters.

Sarah Waring is our Sustainability Champions and has designated responsibilities for the day-to-day implementation of this policy.

Vets4Pets Warrington will make this policy available when requested to interested parties including members of the public, including making a copy available on the website.

Please email any practice sustainability suggestions to warrington@vets4pets.com.